List of political parties in Myanmar

This is a list of political parties in Myanmar (also known as Burma).

Parties represented in the 2016–2021 Assembly of the Union

Party		Abbr.	Seats on the State Administration Council	Seats in Local Hluttaws	Position
	National League for Democracy (banned since 2023[1]) အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်	NLD	0 / 18	476 / 879	Centrist[2] Liberalism
	Union Solidarity and Development Party ပြည်ထောင်စုကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ	USDP	4 / 18	73 / 879	Far-right Buddhist nationalism Conservatism
	Arakan National Party ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီ	ANP	0 / 18	22 / 879	Far-right Rakhine nationalism
	Shan Nationalities League for Democracy ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်	SNLD	0 / 18	25 / 879	Centre-left Shan interests
	Ta'ang National Party တအာင်းအမျိုးသားပါတီ	TNP	0 / 18	7 / 879	Palaung interests
	Zomi Congress for Democracy ဇိုမီး ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်	ZCD	0 / 18	2 / 879	Zomi interests
	Mon National Party မွန်အမျိုးသားပါတီ	MNP	0 / 18	2 / 879	Mon nationalism
	National Unity Party တိုင်းရင်းသားစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ	NUP	0 / 18	0 / 879	Centre-left Federalism Nationalism Populism
	Pa-O National Organisation ပအိုဝ်း အမျိုးသား အဖွဲ့ချုပ်	PNO	0 / 18	6 / 879	Pa'O interests
	Lisu National Development Party လီဆူးအမျိုးသားဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ	LNDP	0 / 18	2 / 879	Lisu interests
	Kachin State Democracy Party ကချင်ပြည်နယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ	KSDP	0 / 18	3 / 879	Kachin interests
	Kokang Democracy and Unity Party ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ 果敢民主团结党	KDUP	0 / 18	1 / 879	Kokang nationalism Anti-communism Right-wing
	Wa Democratic Party ‘ဝ’ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ	WDP	0 / 18	2 / 879	Centrist Wa interests
	All Mon Region Democracy Party မွန်ဒေသလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ	AMRDP	0 / 18	1 / 879	Mon interests
	Democratic Party ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ	DP	0 / 18	1 / 879	Liberal democracy
	Kayin People's Party ကရင်ပြည်သူ့ပါတီ	KPP	1 / 18	1 / 879	Karen interests
	La Hu National Development Party လားဟူ အမျိုးသား ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ပါတီ	LHNDP	0 / 18	1 / 879	Lahu interests
	Shan Nationalities Democratic Party ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ	SNDP	0 / 18	1 / 879	Shan interests Centre-right
	Tai-Leng Nationalities Development Party တိုင်းလိုင်(ရှမ်းနီ)အမျိုးသားများ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ	TNDP	0 / 18	1 / 879	Shan-Ni Interests
	Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ ကချင်ပြည်နယ်	UDPKS	0 / 18	1 / 879	Kachin interests Centre-right
	Wa National Unity Party ဝ အမျိုးသား စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ	WNUP	0 / 18	1 / 879	Wa interests
	Military တပ်မ​တော်	—	9 / 18	216 / 879	Militarist
	Independents	—	0 / 18	1 / 879
	Vacant	—	0	14

Unrepresented parties

• Arakan Liberation Party
• Arakan National Council
• Chin National Front
• Chin National Party
• Chin Progressive Party
• Communist Party of Burma (banned)
• Confederate Farmers Party
• Dawei Nationalities Party
• Democracy and Human Rights Party
• Democracy and Peace Party
• Democratic Party for a New Society
• Ethnic National Development Party
• Federal Union Party
• Inn National Development Party
• Kachin Independence Organization (banned)
• Karen National Party
• Karen National Union
• Karenni National Progressive Party
• Kaman National Progressive Party
• Khami National Development Party
• Lahu Democratic Union
• Modern People's Party
• Mro National Party
• Mro National Solidarity Organisation
• Myanmar Farmers Development Party
• National Democratic Force
• National Democratic Party for Development
• National Development Party
• National Development and Peace Party
• New Mon State Party
• Palaung State Liberation Front
• Peace and Diversity Party
• Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party
• People's Party of Myanmar Farmers and Workers
• Regional Development Party of Pyay
• Restoration Council of Shan State
• Shan State Progress Party
• Union Democratic Party
• United Democratic Party of Myanmar
• United Kayin League
• United Wa State Party
• Wunthanu National League for Democracy

Defunct parties

• 21 Party
• All-Shan State Organisation
• Anti-Fascist Organisation
• Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
• Anti-Separation League
• Arakan League for Democracy
• Arakanese Muslim Association
• Arakanese National Unity Organisation
• Burma Democratic Party
• Burma for the Burmans League
• Burma Muslim Congress
• Burma Nationalist Party
• Burma Socialist Party
• Burma Socialist Programme Party
• Burma Workers Party
• Chin Hills Congress
• Chin National Organisation
• Democracy Party
• Democratic Organisation for Kayan National Unity
• Freedom Bloc
• General Council of Burmese Associations
• Graduates and Old Students Democratic Association
• Hlaing-Myat-Paw GCBA
• Home Rule Party
• Independent Arakanese Parliamentary Group
• Independent Party
• Justice Party
• Kachin National Congress
• Kamans National League for Democracy
• Karen National Association
• Karen State National Organisation
• Kayah Democratic League
• Kayah National United League
• Kayah State Nationalities League for Democracy
• Mara People's Party
• Mon National Front
• Naga Hills Regional Progressive Party
• National Parliamentary Organisation
• National United Front
• Nationalist Party
• Party for National Democracy
• Patriot's Party
• Patriotic Alliance
• Patriotic Old Comrades' League
• People's Democratic Front
• People's Educational and Cultural Development Organisation
• People's Party
• People's Peace Front
• Poor Man's Party
• Rakhine Nationalities Development Party
• Separation League
• Shan State Peasants' Organisation
• Swaraj Party
• Ta'ang National League for Democracy
• Thakins
• Union Danu League for Democracy Party
• Union Karen League
• Union National Democracy Party
• Union Party
• United GCBA
• United Hill People's Congress
• United National Pa-O Organisation
• United Nationalities League for Democracy

Political alliances

• Federal Democracy Alliance
• Nationalities Brotherhood Federation
• United Nationalities Alliance
• United Political Parties Alliance

Political organisations

• 88 Generation Students Group
• Myanmar Democracy Congress
• National Political Alliances League
• Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics
• United Nationalities Federal Council
• Union Solidarity and Development Association

Governments in exile

• National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
• National Council of the Union of Burma
• National Unity Government of Myanmar

See also

• Current events portal

• Assembly of the Union
• Elections in Myanmar

References

1. Min Ye Kyaw; Rebecca Ratcliffe (28 March 2023). "Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party dissolved". The Guardian. Bangkok, Thailand. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
2. Derbyshire, ed. (2016). Encyclopedia of World Political Systems. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 9781317471561.

External links

• List of political parties registered for the 2015 Myanmar general election